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A biker was partially blinded by a gang of Hells Angels after he
refused to join their UK chapter saying he was "too old", a court
heard.
Christopher Harrison, 53, was left unconscious in a pool of blood when
Angels leader Matthew Barnes, 46, and other gang members allegedly
targeted his eyes to stop him identifying them after the attack.
He suffered from two ruptured eyeballs and told how the blows were
'raining in' on him after an argument with Mr Barnes' co-defendant
Oliver Wilkinson, 49, at the Carlisle Pub in Hastings.
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Around 200 people had gathered at the biker pub to watch punk band
named '90% Proof' play, with around 20 Hells Angels attending, a court
heard.
With the music blaring, Mr Wilkinson took Mr Harrison, nicknamed
"Swaggers", outside into the picnic area of the pub for a chat.
The pair had once been friends, but had fallen out over the death of a
fellow biker called "Papa Smurf" several years earlier.
Oliver Wilkinson is a member of the Sussex Chapter of the notorious
motorcycle gang which is famed for riding Harley-Davidson bikes
Oliver Wilkinson is a member of the Sussex Chapter of the notorious
motorcycle gang which is famed for riding Harley-Davidson bikes
CREDIT: CENTRAL NEWS
Wilkinson allegedly asked Mr Harrison to join their Hells Angels
chapter, before bringing out Mr Barnes to speak to him.
Mr Barnes was allegedly identified by police as head of the chapter by
a patch on his leather jacket that said 'President'.
Mr Barnes allegedly asked Mr Harrison: "Why would you not wear these
colours?" before starting the attack by headbutting him in the face.
Bartender Anne Penfold ran outside after seeing several Hells Angels
returning to the pub 'pumped up', jurors heard.
She saw Mr Harrison unconscious on the patio and hailed a passing
police van.
Mrs Penfold described seeing "blood spatters" on the pub wall
following the assault.
Prosecutor Nicholas Cooper said: "The prosecution case is that both
defendants were members of the Hells Angels and that Mr Barnes is the
president of the Hells Angels Sussex chapter.
"Mr Wilkinson was part of the Hells Angels as a support crew member.
"Mr Harrison was not a member of the Hells Angels, but he was a biker.
"The allegation is that both defendants, with others unknown, punched
and kicked Mr Harrison to his head and face with such ferocity that
both his eyeballs ruptured.
"That night at the Carlisle Pub there was a concert, the band were
called "90 Per Cent Proof"."
Mr Cooper described the build up to the attack outside in the picnic
area of the pub, with an argument over biker gangs sparking the
attack.
He told the court: "Mr Wilkinson asked Mr Harrison if he was
interested in becoming a Hells Angel.
"Mr Harrison said he was too old. Mr Wilkinson then said: "I'll get
someone to talk to you".
"He came out with the president, Mr Barnes. Harrison thought straight
away that there was an attitude in the way that he came out.
"Mr Barnes said: "Why would you not wear these colours? They're
perfectly good colours.
"Mr Harrison said: "You get all sorts of colours here, I'm just not
interested. You get blue and whites, referencing to other groups or
gangs.
"Barnes replied: "I hate black and whites, all black and whites should
die.
"And with that he flew in and headbutted him. Harrison said from then
on the punches started to rain in.
"They knocked his legs from behind so that he fell to the ground."
Mrs Penfold was told by Wilkinson: 'If you talk to the police you and
your children are next'.
Barnes, of Washington, West Sussex, and Wilkinson, of Leonard's-on
Sea, East Sussex, both deny causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Later, Recorder Brian Altman QC discharged the jury and said the case
was being put off until July.
He said the reason was because the case was going to run over its
two-week estimate, causing problems for at least two jurors.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/03/biker-suffered-ferocious-attack-refusing-join-hells-angels-old/
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For the second time in three months, a Niagara biker gang has lost its clubhouse.
On Tuesday, Superior Court of Justice Judge Joesph Henderson ruled the
Black Pistons clubhouse on Page Street in St. Catharines is to be
forfeited to the Ontario government because it was used as a base for
a drug-trafficking operation.
Noting that at least one member of the gang, Isaac Lucas, used the
clubhouse “as a base for illegal drug transactions and that illegal
drugs that were intended to be used in drug trafficking were stored on
the premises,” Henderson ordered the building be seized from its owner
Dan Carley, a one-time lottery winner and former Black Pistons
probationary member.
Carley had asked the courts not to allow the seizure — it was
requested by the Crown after a 2013 Niagara Regional Police
investigation — because he was not complicit in illegal activity at
the clubhouse.
However, Henderson ruled that Carley “knew that at least two regular
attendees at Page Street had criminal records and were involved in
illegal drug activities.”
The seizure of the clubhouse, which had been used as the headquarters
of the Black Pistons for seven months in 2013, follows a November
ruling that led to the seizure of the Hells Angels clubhouse on Darby
Road in Welland.
Lawyers representing the Hells Angels had until Dec. 6 to file an
appeal.
In his Tuesday ruling, Henderson said Carley won $5 million in a
lottery in 2005. Shortly after the lotto win “Carley started to use
illegal drugs to such an extent that he became an addict,” Henderson
said.
With his winnings, Carley purchased a few buildings, including 80 Page
St.
Carley rented the property to president Randy McGean of the Black
Pistons — a gang best known for supporting the now-defunct Outlaws
Motorcycle Club — in April 2013.
Carley, who Henderson said was buying drugs from a Black Pistons
member, became a probationary member of the biker gang in spring 2013,
but quit a few months later.
In the spring 2013, the NRP began an investigation into the Black
Pistons, dubbed Project Resurgence, that eventually resulted in
several gang members being charged with drug-related offences,
including Carley, McGean and Lucas.
McGean was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic cocaine and heroin
and possession of a prohibited weapon. Lucas was found guilty
trafficking heroin and being part of a conspiracy to traffic cocaine
and heroin.
Carley pleaded guilty to trafficking cocaine.
The Crown had argued the clubhouse should be seized as part of a
criminal operation. Henderson said the Crown failed to show the drug trafficking was being done for the Black Pistons as part of a criminal organization, and the building could not be seized under those
grounds.
However, the judge said the building was nevertheless the centre of a drug-trafficking operation, specifically pointing to the activities of
Lucas and the drugs stored in his room.
Under those grounds, he ruled, the building will be seized by the
government.
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2018/01/02/black-pistons-biker-clubhouse-seized
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TORONTO - A London man has admitted he helped lead a lucrative,
illegal sports gambling scheme that grossed more than $100 million in
five years.
David Hair, 50, "was a leading member of the upper-echelon management
group" of Platinum Sports Book, "an illegal bookmaking operation" that
was run on websites through computers in Costa Rica, Crown attorney
Henry Poon said in reading an agreed statement of facts in Toronto
court Wednesday.
Hair, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to bookmaking for a criminal
organization, will be sentenced to two years imprisonment. He also
agreed to pay $3 million in fines -- $2 million before he's actually
sentenced on Feb. 21 -- and the remaining million within the next
three years, court heard.
Hair remains out on $400,000 bail and still lives at the McCracken
Court house in London’s swish Sunningdale neighbourhood, where police
found $680,000 in bundled cash -- believed to be Platinum revenues --
when a search warrant was executed in February 2013.
Platinum's hundreds of bookies or agents operated across Canada and
worked in a "highly sophisticated and organized pyramid-type
structure," signing up thousands of bettors, Poon said. The bookies
and agents passed up a percentage of their winnings to
upper-management people such as Hair, Poon told Justice John McMahon.
Hair and 30 others were busted in a glitzy Super Bowl party at a
Markham banquet hall in February 2013 — a customer-appreciation bash
for 2,000-plus loyal gamblers.
Among those charged with bookmaking, participating in a criminal
organization and keeping a common gaming house were Bill Miller,
former president of the London chapter of the Hells Angels, and Andrew
Bielli of London, also linked to the Hells Angels.
A month later, Rob Barletta and Christopher Rutledge, both of London,
were charged with committing a crime for a criminal organization and
bookmaking in a second set of arrests by the province’s combined
forces special enforcement unit.
Police searched 10 locations, including three homes in London, and
seized $1.6 million in cash and vehicles.
Charges against Barletta, former head of the London Hells Angels, were withdrawn Sept. 12, 2016, the same day Gordon Baird admitted in a
Toronto court that he was the administrator of Platinum.
Baird received an 18-month conditional sentence, to be served in his
home, and a $400,000 fine.
Bielli pleaded guilty in January 2017 to possessing property obtained
by crime over $5,000 and was sentenced to 15 months in custody.
A financial audit, based on intermittent betting records, suggested
Platinum grossed more than $103 million between 2009 and 2013.
The 2013 Super Bowl party — which cost Platinum more than $100,000 —
attracted 2,300 invitation-only guests, plus hundreds of raiding cops
from different forces.
http://www.nugget.ca/2018/01/04/londoner-david-hair-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-100m-sports-betting-ring-linked-to-organized-crime
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Mashpee Man Held On Gun Charge To Have Hearing In February
By STEVEN WITHROW 8 hrs ago 0
A pretrial hearing at Plymouth District Court scheduled for Wednesday,
January 3, for a Mashpee man held on a gun charge has been continued
to a motion hearing on February 14 at 9 AM, court documents state.
Massachusetts State Police arrested Eli J. Perry, 37, of Riverside
Drive, Mashpee, on Route 3 in Plymouth on December 5, a Plymouth
District Court report stated.
Mr. Perry pleaded not guilty the next day on charges of carrying a
firearm without a license, operating a motor vehicle with a suspended
license and a number plate violation to conceal identity.
He is being held at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility on
$20,000 bond or $2,000 cash bail, according to court documents.
His attorney, Peter W. Maguire of Hingham, said in court that he plans
to file a motion to suppress the evidence taken from the traffic stop.
Mr. Perry did not appear in the courtroom Wednesday.
According to the police report, state troopers pulled over a Ford
pickup being driven by Mr. Perry after a trooper recognized that it
matched the description of a vehicle Cape detectives were seeking as
part of an investigation.
While taking an inventory of the vehicle at the Bourne State Police
barracks, state troopers found a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver
wrapped in a white rag under the truck’s driver’s seat, the report
said.
A passenger in the pickup, 29-year-old Paige Malone, told state
troopers that Raymond Perry was missing and that he was part of the
Hells Angels motorcycle gang, the report said. She told troopers that
Hells Angels members had broken into Mr. Perry’s home about a week
earlier to try to find him.
Eli Perry has had multiple court appearances at Falmouth District
Court in the past three years for drug-related and other charges.
The body of Mr. Perry’s father, 64-year-old Mashpee resident Raymond
M. Perry, was found in Plymouth December 19, according to a statement
from Cape & Islands District Attorney Michael D. O’Keefe and Mashpee
Police Chief Scott W. Carline December 19.
Mr. Perry, who lived on Riverside Road, was reported missing December
1.
“The manner of death is homicide,” the district attorney’s office said
in the statement.
Officers recovered the body in an area of Plymouth near the town of
Carver as part of a joint investigation by Mashpee police, the
Massachusetts State Police and law enforcement agencies in Plymouth
County, the statement said.
The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to
be blunt force trauma to the head in combination with cutting wounds
to the neck, the statement said.
The investigation continues by Mashpee police and Massachusetts State
Police detectives assigned to the district attorney’s office, the
statement said.
Mashpee police, state police and the district attorney’s office shared
no additional information on the case when reached for comment this
week.
https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/details_documents/mashpee-man-held-on-gun-charge-to-have-hearing-in/article_10edf59f-7ddf-54e5-beac-f59db0654ac9.html
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Felon who molested, threatened runaways sentenced to life in prison
By: City News Service Jesus Reyes
Posted: Jan 04, 2018 09:20 PM PST
Updated: Jan 04, 2018 09:20 PM PST
Randy John Morasch
MURRIETA, Calif. - A convicted felon who repeatedly sexually assaulted
two runaway boys he took into his Anza home, using threats to keep
them under control and plotting to kill them so they couldn't testify
against him, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility
of parole.
Randy John Morasch, 55, was convicted last month of two dozen felony
charges, including forcible sodomy, kidnapping to commit rape, assault
with a firearm, supplying pornography to a minor and solicitation to
commit murder.
Morasch sought to fire his attorney, Marty Miller, during a closed
hearing prior to his sentencing at the Southwest Justice Center, but
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Elaine Kiefer denied the
request. She imposed the sentence required by law.
According to Deputy District Attorney Marcus Garrett, the offenses
occurred between 2006 and 2014 and involved a 16-year-old runaway boy identified in court documents only as "P.N.'' and a 17-year-old boy
identified as "A.B.''
In the case of P.N., Morasch invited the homeless youth to stay with
him at his house, located in the hills around Anza, a dozen miles east
of Temecula. Morasch worked to win the boy's confidence, allowing him
to freely shoot guns, consume alcohol and ride ATVs, Garrett said.
After the boy settled into the ex-con's home, Morasch showed him a
homemade pornographic movie featuring his then-teenage stepson, Dennis Harrison, having sexual intercourse with a teenage girl, Garrett said.
While viewing the video, Morasch raped P.N. and forced him to perform
oral sex, the prosecutor said.
The victim was sexually abused on multiple occasions in the ensuing
months, according to the prosecution. The boy made several attempts to
get away from Morasch, who told him that he was "affiliated with the
Hell's Angels and... could have P.N. killed,'' Garrett wrote in a
trial brief.
On one occasion, the teen ran out of the house, and Morasch fired a
gun to stop the victim, who was not injured, according to the
prosecutor. Ultimately, the boy was able to procure help and flee the
residence permanently.
In 2013, Morasch was introduced to A.B. through a mutual friend and
offered to take the runaway into his house and let him stay rent-free, according to the prosecution. The youth was further permitted to use
"vehicles, guns and drugs'' to put him at ease -- and keep him under
the defendant's sway, Garrett wrote.
After a few days, Morasch asked the victim to join him in his bedroom
to watch porn, and when the teen tried to leave, the defendant
"grabbed A.B., put handcuffs on his wrists, bent him over the bed and
forcibly sodomized him,'' according to the prosecutor.
Morasch began using open threats to make the victim comply with his
sexual demands and deter him from leaving the property, Garrett said.
"These threats included occasions when the defendant pointed a loaded
handgun in the direction of the victim and pulled the trigger,'' the
prosecutor said, adding that the boy was not struck by gunfire.
A.B. reunited with his family six months later and revealed what had
happened to him.
Sheriff's investigators were alerted, and just as they prepared to
serve an arrest warrant at the Anza property in June 2014, Morasch
fled to Northern California. He was tracked down by police near
Sacramento, where he was taken into custody following a high-speed
chase.
After he was jailed, Morasch plotted to have his accusers killed and
enlisted the help of his now-32-year-old stepson -- Harrison -- who
complied with the defendant's instructions and tried to frighten the
witnesses, according to Garrett.
Harrison pleaded guilty last year to witness intimidation and was
sentenced to six years in state prison.
According to court records, Morasch's prior convictions included
assault with a deadly weapon, evading arrest, burglary and receiving
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